Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

Was the last Troll's head easy to chop off, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chop off

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 head	amod
4	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Troll	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	compound
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chop	mark
9	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	xcomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 chop	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nah	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 easy	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						easy property	tree rules
2	chop off	to-infinitive							vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it fell off quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	it					quick property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, it was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it was the softest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 softest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 softest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 softest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 softest	det
6	softest	soft	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					soft property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was the toughest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 toughest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 toughest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 toughest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toughest	det
6	toughest	tough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					tough property	tree rules

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